ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,762, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Personal information protection device" was invented by Ryota Nakamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal information protection device to be applied to a vehicle includes a state detector, a data receiver, and a data processor. The state detector detects state data including a state of an occupant or an inside of a vehicle compartment. The data receiver acquires the state data from the state detector. The data processor executes processing on the state data. The data processor: obfuscates the state data, and saves the state data obfuscated in a first memory...